Building a Personal Website with Github Pages

This presentation was originally given at the Girl Develop It (Dayton), Building a Personal Website with Github Pages Workshop.

Slides and materials are hosted at http://bryanbraun.github.io/gdi-personal-website.

Course description

Many developers are turning to Github Pages for a free, low-maintenance, and programmer-friendly way to build a personal website. In this course, you'll learn the skills and workflows needed to create and host your own customized personal site on Github pages.

Prerequisites:

• You should be familiar with web development fundamentals (HTML & CSS).

Tech requirements:

• Your laptop (Mac, PC, or Linux are all okay).
• A modern web browser - either Chrome or Firefox with Firebug installed.
• A Github account (create one at https://github.com).
• Github Desktop. Install it at https://desktop.github.com.

Optional:

• A text editor. We recommend Atom or Sublime Text 2 (both are free; available for Mac, PC, and Linux).

Topics covered:

This workshop will cover:

• Hosting static files on Github, with Github Pages
• Publishing Code to Github with Github Desktop
• Using Jekyll to create and build a dynamically generated site
• Hosting Jekyll sites on Github pages

Viewing the slides locally

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